Paris: Seventy people were detained in Paris on Monday evening during protests following the adoption of pension reform by France's National Assembly (lower house of parliament), BFMTV reported, citing a police source.
New York: “The most serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past four decades” have been committed since the death in police custody of Jina Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran said on Monday.
Ottawa: Halifax Regional Police said a student was taken into custody after stabbing two teachers at the Charles P. Allen High School in Bedford in Canada’s Province of Nova Scotia.
New York: A Japanese initiative to colourize photos of Hiroshima survivors, taken before the war, has been hailed by the UN as a way to breathe new life into conversations about peace, and a world without nuclear weapons.
Paris/UNI: Seventy people were detained in Paris on Monday evening during protests following the adoption of a pension reform by France's National Assembly (lower house of parliament), BFMTV reported, citing a police source.
Kabul: Afghanistan's Chamber of Agriculture and Livestock has urged the United Nations to support by providing storage facilities for wheat as the country continues to struggle with its economic situation, media reports said.
Kabul: Several Afghanistani parents and students have urged the Taliban authorities, the group which has been forcefully ruling the country since August 2021, to reopen secondary schools for girls, media reports said.
The Pakistani electronic media regulator has imposed a ban on Bol News for live coverage of clashes between law enforcement personnel and the PTI workers recently.
Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, an Australia-born media mogul and an American businessman, is engaged to marry for the fifth time at the age of 92.
Finland has been declared the happiest country in the world for the sixth year in a row, as per the annual World Happiness Report.
Toronto: A large number of Indian students are facing the risk of being deported from Canada to India after it was found that their study permits were based on alleged fake documentation prepared by an agent in India.
New York: The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-brokered deal aimed at supplying markets with food and fertilizer amid global shortages and rising prices, exacerbated by the Ukraine war, was extended on Saturday, the day it was due to expire.
New York: Following their return from a fact-finding visit to Haiti, a group of senior United Nations officials and representatives of NGOs issued an urgent call on Saturday, for increased access and resources to reach people in desperate need.
New York: The 2023 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 67), the largest UN gathering on gender equality, successfully wrapped up on Saturday, with Member States calling for a full and equal participation of women and girls in the development of digital technologies.
Colombo: Sri Lankan central bank governor Nandalal Weerasinghe told media on Sunday that the country's "dollar crisis" is over, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to approve a 2.9 billion U.S. dollar bailout package for the country on Monday.
Cox's Bazar: Inclement weather has forced the suspension of movement of passenger vessels on the Teknaf- St Martin's route, leaving at least 500 holidaymakers stranded on Saint Martin's Island of Bangladesh, media reports said.
Tokyo: The suspected ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Sunday landed outside of Japan's exclusive economic zone, Japanese media report.
Madaripur: At least 19 people died as a bus crashed into ditch in Madaripur region of Bangladesh, media reports said on Monday.
Islamabad: The Pakistan Police on Sunday lodged a first information report (FIR) — including terrorism charges — against PTI Chairman and former PM Imran Khan and more than a dozen PTI leaders for allegedly attacking police officers and causing chaos outside the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC), media reports said.
Minnesota/US: A nuclear power plant in US's Minnesota discharged a minimum of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water in November, which was not disclosed to the public until Thursday.
Ottawa/UNI: A train has derailed in the city of Port Colborne, located in the south of Canada’s Ontario province, the city authorities inform.
Islamabad: Pak Suzuki Motor Company (PSMC) on Friday announced the decision to shut down its motorcycle plant for 12 days due to the shortage of inventory, media reports said.
Islamabad: The Inspector General of Prison, Punjab has directed authorities to put security jails across Punjab on high alert.
Lahore/IBNS: The Pakistani government on Wednesday transferred Gilgit-Baltistan Inspector General of Police (IGP) Muhammad Saeed from his post following allegations — levelled by the information minister — that GB police personnel were being pitted against Punjab police as the latter attempted to arrest PTI chief Imran Khan from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore, media reports said.
New York: Former US President Donald Trump has urged his supporters to protest if he gets arrested, as he expects to be taken into custody on Tuesday in connection with hush money allegedly paid to a porn star before the 2016 election, AFP reported.
Khyber: Vehicular traffic to and from Torkham was restored after it remained closed for several hours on Thursday due to protest by the Khugakhel tribesmen in Landi Kotal against the construction of a customs terminal at the border over their additional land without their formal consent, local media reports said on Saturday.
Islamabad: Punjab's caretaker government has signed an agreement to hand over at least 45,267 acres of land in three districts — Bhakkar, Khushab, and Sahiwal — of the province to the Pakistan Army for ‘Corporate Agriculture Farming’, media reports said.
Quetta: Seven people, including a tribal elder and his two brothers, died after the vehicle in which they were travelling was sprayed with bullets in Pakistan's Balochistan region, media reports said on Saturday.
Islamabad: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said telling truth has become the biggest crime in Pakistan.
Kabul: A former Taliban leader has said terror group Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) has received funding from Pakistan and IS central from Syria and Iraq for terrorist activities.
